Submitting material for publication
Manuscripts of articles should be addressed to:
Professor David Clarke
School of Law, University of Bristol, Wills Memorial Building, Queen's Road, Bristol BS8 1RJ
T: +44(0) 117 954 5304 F: +44(0) 117 925 1870
d.n.clarke@bristol.ac.uk
or
Professor Keith Stanton
School of Law, University of Bristol, Wills Memorial Building, Queen's Road, Bristol BS8 1RJ
T: +44(0) 117 954 5307 F: +44(0) 117 925 1871
k.stanton@bristol.ac.uk
Electronic submission (in Word or Wordperfect format) is preferred.
Book reviews should be sent to
Dr Stephen Watterson
School of Law, University of Bristol, Wills Memorial Building, Queen's Road, Bristol BS8 1RJ
T: +44(0) 117 954 5349 F: +44(0) 117 925 1870
stephen.watterson@bristol.ac.uk
Presentation & style information
Length
The preferred maximum length for articles is 10,000 words. The preferred length for book reviews is 1,000 to 1,500 words. Authors who are contemplating submitting a review article should contact the Book Reviews Editor for guidance.
Footnotes
Footnotes should be collated at the end of the article, but will be published at the foot of each relevant page. Footnotes to the title and author(s)' names should be designated as *, † etc. Footnotes to the text should be designated as 1, 2, 3 etc. and follow any closing punctuation, e.g. …limitations are possible.¹ The asterisked footnote should give the author's position, institutional address and any brief acknowledgements if required.
References
All references should be placed in footnotes.
Cases
Cases should be cited in the following forms:
Quick v Taff-Ely Borough Council [1986] QB 809
If specific pages are referred to:
Quick v Taff-Ely Borough Council [1986] QB 809 at 811
No full stops should be used in the journal abbreviation, e.g. All ER, WLR, EGLR etc.
Articles
Roman abbreviations should be used for familiar journals. Otherwise the title should be given in full in italics:
J. Cohen, 'A Theory of the Stability of Punishment' (1983) 64 Journal of Criminal Law 198
Books
The following styles should be used:
M. A. Jones, Textbook on Torts, 2nd edn (Blackstone Press: London, 1989) 234
G. Richardson, 'Judicial Intervention' in M. Maguire (ed.), Accountability (Tavistock: London, 1985) 113
Statutes
Modern statutes should be cited in the form:
The Landlord and Tenant (Covenants) Act 1995, s. 3(1)(a)
Official publications
These should be cited in the form:
Law Commission, Family Law: The Ground for Divorce, Cm 192 (1990) para. 4.5
Cross references
References should be cited in full on the first occasion they are mentioned. Subsequent cross-references should take the following form:
See Walter, above n. 4 at 23
If Walter is referred to in the text after it has been cited for a first time, the cross-reference will be:
Above n. 4 at 23
If the cross-reference is to the immediately preceding note, the reference will be:
Ibid. at 23
Quotations
Quotations within the text should use single quotation marks and quotations within quotations use double quotation marks. If quotations are three lines or more they should be separated out from the rest of the text and should not be enclosed by quotation marks.
Copyright
It is a condition of publication in Common Law World Review that authors grant an exclusive licence to Vathek Publishing permitting them to reproduce and/or disseminate the author's contribution or elements of it (e.g. abstract, metadata). In signing the licence the author retains the right to use their own material and Vathek Publishing asks that Common Law World Review is acknowledged as the original place of publication.
